Your Mail: Study the Constitution

8:28 AM,
Jan. 25, 2013

Written by

yourmail@thetowntalk.com

When are our schools going to take the time to actually teach what's in the U.S. Constitution? After all it is the basic law of the land. I ask this because of a recent letter in The Town Talk from Cobert Colwell of West Monroe.

Colwell expresses a common frustration felt by many over the performance of the U.S. Congress. His solution is to withhold the pay of the representatives, senators and the president. He then goes to the extreme of demanding that the very same members of Congress vote to reduce their pay to the lowest benefit paid to a Social Security recipient. His proposal violates Article I, ...